tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72695043847068701782024-03-13T15:29:58.308+02:00under the pecan treerahelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04163997527799490294noreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269504384706870178.post-5202172991415793542019-06-21T15:50:00.002+03:002019-11-10T17:22:35.988+02:00new blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has been a looooong time since I wrote the last time. I am already working for almost 9 months outside- tending to the public gardens, spaces and corners of our community. I survived so far, learning a lot, enjoying it in general but miss a bit of "computer-work"- so I decided to start a new blog and write about my work, gardening and bits and pieces of connected things.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I do not work in the office anymore and spend muuuuuch less time in front of the computer, I neglected my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's two months now since I started to work outdoors. There was not one day I wished I could be back in the office. It would be nice though to combine the physical work with a more brainy activity once in a while. I do need to use my brain- just in a very different way than until now. It's about planing work activities, learning all I can about the different plants, work methods etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I especially like the early mornings when everything is still quiet and the "world just starts to wake up".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learn a lot about "gardening" in a Mediterranean climate. I already knew some stuff, but mostly for small scale gardening. To take care of a huge area has totally different aspects. Water is one of the biggest problems. The second- to choose plants that do not require a huge amount of care- otherwise we will never manage with our small team.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is my last day in the office. In two weeks the above will be my new "office"- the tiny white shed you can see behind the parked cars.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Kibbutz is a very green place with loads of trees and bushes. Right now, in the end of the summer, some places are dry. After the first rains everything will start to be super-green and loads of flowers will make everything colourful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The holiday of "Sukkot"- </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">the Feast of Tabernacles</span></b></a><span style="color: #274e13;">- will start on Sunday and we still have to build a "Sukkah"- a kind of hut.</span></span></div>
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May I was in Switzerland and I spent a lovely day in the </span><a href="http://under-the-pecan-tree.blogspot.com/2018/06/enjoying-green.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">botanic park</span></b></a><span style="color: #274e13;">- it was
one of those days that I told myself for the thousandth time, that I have to
change something in my life and that I can't go on sitting in the office for 9
hours in front of a screen… it's just not me- although that's exactly what I
did the past 13 years. I love plants, nature, outdoor…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the atmosphere at work changed during the last 1-2 years, good colleagues left,
reorganization took place etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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changed my password at work to "Garden 19"- some kind of everyday-reminder
to change things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the quite amazing thing happened and I got a new job! I did not think it will
happen so fast, I did not think I will actually have the courage, I did not
think that it will be such a convenient and interesting arrangement. I am proud of myself that I was able to do this step.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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October I will start to work in the "Noi" in the kibbutz. "Noi"
is basically the department in the kibbutz that deals the public gardens/
spaces/ plants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will work close together with the head gardener and I am eager to learn
everything he can teach me. I am full of ideas and energy. It will not be very
easy since I am not used to physical work anymore and I quite suffer from heat-
but I also know that it is something you get used to it. I am a bit nervous and
a tiny bit scared but I am hopeful and convinced, that this is the right
thing for me to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hope I will soon start to write a bit more again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now my mind is occupied with loads of stuff- maybe that even caused the pressure
headaches lately. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is in full swing- hot and humid. This sticky weather puts me in not-so-nice
moods- the kids sometimes too. Well- to look on the bright side- it's going
towards the end of July- that basically leaves August and then it should slowly
get better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summer holidays will start in the end of the week and I will maybe finally have a bit space to breath. June is always a crazy month with too many end-of-the-year-celebrations, birthday parties (including two of our kids) and other events. This year also some more personal issues keep me busy (at least my mind).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made my 4th hidden image drawing for the kibbutz news magazine. In addition to the listed items you can also try to find the key to the treasure box.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wish all of you a wonderful summer with time to relax and enjoy.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ich wünsche euch allen einen schönen Sommer.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>.שיהיה לכם קיץ נהדר</b></span><br />
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weeks ago I had to go to an exhibition in Munich. Although I am not from Germany
I immediately had this feeling of "being (at least close to) home".
The European buildings, the clean streets, the organized life, the light in the
morning, the church bells, the air…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stayed in a lovely small hotel- the "</span><a href="https://www.hotel-im-hof.de/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Im Hof</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;">"- I can recommend a stay
there if you ever should happen to be in Munich. It's what you call in German
"klein aber fein". Especially the small details like the home made
jams and fruitsalad, served in tiny glass jars. It felt so luxurious! (And I do
not especially like hotels)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway-
after the trade fair I took a train and travelled south for some 5 hours to my
family in Switzerland. Home, sweet home. I can't get enough sniffing the
mountain air, bathing my eyes and soul in the green landscape, feeling safe and
… well... at home. Even if only for 3 days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among other things I went for a nice walk with my mother one evening- enjoying the long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lasting daylight. Everything seems to me like
paradise after living for so long in Israel. I guess they sometimes think I am
mad <span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>-
getting all excited about the juicy green fields, bushes, forest, the flowers,
the highland cattle, the small streams, the vegetable gardens etc…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last day I spent with my sister in the "</span><a href="http://www.meriangaerten.ch/de/home.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">Merian Gardens</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;">" not far from
my parents. I could stay there for hours, days… examining the herbs and
flowers, enjoying the clean paths, the tidy lawns and flowerbeds… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well-
I guess I should finally do something about it. I need nature. I can't spend my
time much longer only working indoors in an office, sitting in front of a
screen for 9 hours a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
told myself, that I need to start to "extend my sensors" and start to
look around and think about other options. Who knows if I will succeed- maybe
not right now, but in a year? Or two? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />rahelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04163997527799490294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269504384706870178.post-1160754184612560622018-05-09T15:09:00.002+03:002018-05-09T15:09:57.093+03:00wednesday<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our kids fight with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"She
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"He
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"He's
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
so many times I tell them to cool down, to talk to each other instead of
shouting at each other or hit each other. To ask politely for something. To be
kind to each other. We look for a solution that is okay for everyone…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not always easy, but we keep trying.</span></div>
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and then there are the powerful men in this world (yes, they are usually
men), who are egoistic, power-hungry, full of themselves, uncontrollable…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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they fight with each other and try to show each other who is more powerful and
who is better and greater and so on and so on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They
do not seem to look for peaceful solutions, they do not seem to be able to sit
down together , act grown-up and talk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How
shall I explain my kids the situation? Trump and Iran and Netanyahu. Syria and
war and rockets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottomless hatred,
cruel leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
how do I stay calm all the while I am scared of yet another war- and this time
maybe a bigger one that will affect us personally much more than the past ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where
are the true leaders in this world? Ready to "fight" for peace so we
can all life a good, decent life? Leaders that respect each other, talk to each
other. Leaders that are honest, caring, looking for ways to solve problems
instead of escalate them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things
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try to keep my mind off bad things, enjoying the garden. It even rained quite a
lot, which is very unusual for May. I listen to the birds singing in the morning, look at the beautiful clouds in the sky, the colourful flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sister gave birth to a cute baby-girl in March. </span></div>
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when I was young- before I met my husband and moved to Israel- I always
imagined that I would live close to my sisters, that our kids will play
together, that we would cuddle each other's babies. So this time I just had to
go and at least take one of those babies into my arms when they are newborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took some planning and guessing and I arrived 3 days after my nice was born- being
able to happily cuddle this tiny, soft human being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the story I want to tell is that of a way to school:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wished for snow, longed for snow (no big chance for this where I live…)- and
so I got my snow on my second day there- covering everything absolutely
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classroom, taught by one teacher. In her case grade 1-6 are together, some 18
kids. Next time I have to stay, because it does very much interest me, how the
teacher is dealing this challenge. Unfortunately the teacher will retire in
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it's the view or the history or a combination of both. The kids loved also to
explore the site- the pond with the water, the narrow ancient stairs going down
and down and down… The old game of Mancala- still visible in the stone, the
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's Purim again. I never buy costumes. I don't mind buying some material to make a costume, but even then- nothing too expensive. So we usually make do with what we have and what we can easily get or recycle.</span></div>
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that I have a bad life- no, I have a wonderful husband, I have 3 kids I love,
we now have a nice house, I live in a nice place and have some friends… but I
dream of being closer to nature. 9 hours every day in front of a computer
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addition I feel like I miss out on so many things connected to my kids. I am
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above you can see the mask at an earlier stage. Melanie from "Meine gruene Wiese" made some awesome astronaut helmets with her kids and used the same technique-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b> <a href="http://meinegruenewiese.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/kleine-astronauten-1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">take a look</span></a></b></span><span style="color: #666666;">, they are super cute!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Ginny started her </span><a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2018/01/yarn-along-324.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>yarn along</b></span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I knitted a hat for my husband. The picture is taken shortly before I finished...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Two years I already </span><a href="http://under-the-pecan-tree.blogspot.co.il/2016/02/another-yarn-along.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>knitted one</b></span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> for him, but somehow it was too big (or got bigger through wearing and I could not "shrink" it back...).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I read "the barefoot queen" by Idelfonso Falcones- so far very much enjoying it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started to teach the kids more German. It is very important to me that they will know how to read, write and talk. I speak Swissgerman with them all the time, but it is largely an oral language and everything written or more official is in German. I taught them some stuff- like the letters (so far only the girls)- but I was a bit lazy during the last year (or more) and we need to get back on track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bought them schoolbooks and only this already gave them a huge motivation to learn (funny what a colourful, shiny book can achieve).</span></div>
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love working in the garden. I love growing vegetables and herbs alongside
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always had a vegetable garden. As a kid I found it often a bit boring to help
my mother- but I loved to pull out carrots, pick strawberries, parsley and
other stuff and eat them on the spot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took me some time to grow some vegetables successfully in Israel- I was not
accustomed to the different growing cycle, the long, hot, dry summers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some
of the things I grow today are a huge success- others I still find hard- like
onions, sweet potatoes, peas. Well, there's always something new to learn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I would like to write about something that is closely
related to my love for gardening: Food waste- especially waste of fresh
vegetables, fruits or herbs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I always wondered why products have to be so uniform;
Cucumbers need to have a certain length and diameter, apples a certain size and
shape etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where are the funny carrots I so much loved to pull out of
the ground as a kid? The ones with the two legs? The potatoes with the knobby
nose?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What happens to all the non-conform products?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.imperfectproduce.com/blog-1/2017/7/14/share-the-produce-share-the-love-4-ways-that-referring-a-friend-is-easier-than-ever" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666;">image taken from the website of "imperfect produce"</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Things start to change slowly. In Switzerland in one of the
big supermarket chains you can buy "Ünique" vegetables and fruits-
they have non-conform shapes or sizes, cost less and taste good all the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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days, quite by coincidence: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.imperfectproduce.com/home.php" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">"Imperfect Produce"</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in the USA- immediately fell
in love with their googly-eyed-vegetables and fruits (see above image)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.oddbox.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #444444;">"OddBox"</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;"> from the UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both offer home delivery in boxes. I don't know them
personally and can't try them- but I love the idea, the ideology behind their
projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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supplier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are familiar with a similar project/ company, let me
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJwtR_mYgU" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">from one of the Wranglerstar movies</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">My husband is a long-time follower and fan of the Wranglerstar Family. He loves to watch the videos from </span><span style="color: #444444;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/wranglerstar/featured" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">their channel</span></a> </b></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on modern homesteading.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes I join him and watch some of the videos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is one video that I just have to share because it is such a beautiful idea.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERa1hC-cnO4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">Watch here</span></a> </b></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how Cody is decorating the forest for Christmas.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Puts a huge smile on my face :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end of the year is getting close. We stayed in Israel this year and I think it was the first year I actually enjoyed Christmas Eve here. Of course I missed my family, but it is getting better with the years.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took a day off, so I could be at home when the kids get home from school and we ate lunch together. We played board games all afternoon, had a delicious, simple dinner and of course the presents had to be opened (mostly by the kids- for us grown ups this is less important).</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I actually managed this year to bake loads of cookies, gingerbread, stollen, make hot cacao, hot cider etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">A week before Christmas we went with friends to Nazareth. I haven't been there for years. We went to show the kids the church (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Annunciation" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>Basilica of the Annunciation</b></span></a><span style="color: #666666;">)- we heard the music from the organ, went to see the nativity and listened to the church bells. It gave some feeling of Christmas which is otherwise a bit absent in the "holy land".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I wish you all a good end of 2017- time to enjoy with your family and friends in peace and good health.</span></span><br />
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of beautifully carved inscriptions in Arabic. A huge room with vaulted ceiling,
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a strange thing- to drive between minefields (old but never cleared), to watch to
the left, see Syria and think about the human tragedy on the other side. To see
in the north the leaves of the apple trees glowing in bright yellow and red- a
festival of colour before the winter- but on the other side of the border
there's probably not much reason for joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything is dry. Let's pray that this winter will bring more rain! It
is badly needed- especially in the north. The water level of the Sea of Galilee
is very low- you can see it clearly. Even now that Israel stopped to pump water
from it the level is not rising due to the drought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">There are
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">They make me
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Murmurs can
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Roars can
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">So why murmur
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Why not just
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">If someone
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">I don't get
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Some days
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Could be
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">Could be
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<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif";">They make my
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Friday I managed to finish 3 small sachets with lavender for the new house. I love nice smelling clothes/ sheets :-) </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are made from linen fabric I cut from old pants and some other bits and pieces I found.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Already a while ago I also finished to upholster an old stool. I removed the old paint on the wood and just covered the old upholstery with this lovely yellow fabric. It is not one of those "new" upholstery fabrics that contain no cotton and should be easy to clean... but hey- should it get really dirty I can always change it or try to take it down and wash it...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel a bit exhausted- it's partly the heat of the summer but also the house-building-project that takes up almost every spare minute. And I am not even dealing a lot of things. I could never do this without my husband. He is dealing such a lot of things, is constantly in touch with the builder, the bank and whatever else. He deserves a HUGE thank-you. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dreamed many years of how I would like our house to look like. I made thousands of plans. Thousands of times over the last ten years we said to ourselves "when we will have the new house" if we saw something nice. And now that we need to choose so many things- sometimes it get's too much, too overwhelming. We do the basics- we will not have the perfect interior. Mainly out of financial reasons- but I also like to live first in the place and let it grow around and with us. So we bought the most basic furniture/ lightning that we could not do without and everything else will be either old stuff or things we will "upcycle".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am already dreaming of the garden and I made many plans on what to grow, where to grow etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We fantasize about a homestead (or something similar)- but that will stay a dream for now. Although we live in the "countryside", we definitely do not have enough space. A garden-space of around 150m2 (around 1,600 ft2) is too small- although still not bad for a vegetable garden/ flowers/ herbs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the chicken, goats or sheep, more fruit-trees etc will not fit in.</span><br />
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